Playing the Maestro by Aubrie Dionne

Author:Aubrie Dionne [Dionne, Aubrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: boss employee, enemies to lovers, entangled publishing, series, orchestra, sweet romance, Romance, forbidden love, bliss, music, aubrie dionne
Publisher: Entangled Publishing (Bliss)
Published: 2013-02-09T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Near Death’s Door

Melody dreaded rehearsal more than doing her taxes, and she had enough odd jobs and alternate incomes to claim for three people, never mind one.

Just pretend nothing happened and play your part. But it sounded so much easier than it was. Just entering the stage made her hyperventilate. That was never good when you needed your full lungs to play a high C. Worst of all, she hadn’t been able to focus on her practicing, so she wasn’t the most prepared, either.

“Looks like you’ve seen a ghost.” Carly stared at Melody as she plopped into her seat.

“Oh, I’m fighting a small cold.” Melody rubbed her nose.

“A cold? In the middle of June?”

Suddenly her chair had turned into the hot seat. Melody’s legs stuck to the plastic underneath. She picked the wrong day to wear her short shorts. But a little looking-good revenge after a breakup couldn’t hurt. She shrugged. “Could be allergies.”

Carly soaked her reed and cast a glance at her friend’s long, bare legs. “That’s one way to deal with the lack of AC.”

“All my other shorts were dirty.” Melody kept her eyes on her music, pretending to riffle through the pieces.

“Mm-hm. Haven’t heard from you lately. Been out on some late nights?”

Wow, Carly is nosy today. Melody pulled down the edge of her shorts, thinking maybe her revenge fantasy was a bad idea. “No. Just practicing for the concerto competition.” Melody resisted the urge to wince, wishing she’d been doing more practicing and less romancing.

“Good, because I was so worried about those staccatos in movement two.” Carly’s voice dripped with sarcasm. She nudged her shoulder. “All joking aside, something up?”

Melody hated how her friend seemed to have ESP, especially tuned to dating. Carly always knew when Melody had kissed someone, and her friend didn’t believe in the don’t-kiss-and-tell policy.

“My niece got rushed to the emergency room the other night. She’s fine, but it was a big scare for my sister and me.” She hated using Violet as an excuse. But it was partially true.

Carly’s mouth dropped, along with her haughty attitude. “I’m so sorry to hear that. Is she going to be okay?”

“Yeah, it’s asthma stuff. My sister’s keeping an eye on her.”

“Gosh. Poor little thing.” She stuck her reed in her oboe. “Should I send a card?”

“It’s okay. They’re handling it great. It seemed to scare me worse than her.”

“That’s because you’re a caring aunt, sweetie.”

“I try.” Melody settled into her seat, feeling as though she’d been spared Carly’s laser gaze for the time being.

Wolf took the podium, and his eyes traveled right down to Melody’s bare legs. He took in an almost imperceptible gulp of breath and his eyes flashed wide before dropping to his score.

Hot damn! Melody gloated as she assembled her flute. Take that, Mr. Let’s Just Be Colleagues.

Melody’s smiled wiped right off her face when she turned to Carly. Her friend gaped like she’d just seen him blow her a kiss. “Wait a sec. Is there something going on between you and the conductor?”

Blake chose that moment to enter the stage.

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